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Re: current development
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Timothy Y. Chow |
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Re: current development |
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Wed, 4 Dec 2019 14:07:45 -0500 (EST) |
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Alpine 2.21 (LRH 202 2017-01-01) |
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Joseph Heled wrote:
I had the same idea the day I heard they cracked go, but just saying
something is a good idea is not helpful at all in my book.
Well, other people may have other books.
Also, it's my impression that many people *don't* think this is even a
worthwhile idea to pursue. Backgammon is already "solved," is what they
will say. It's true that "AlphaGammon" will surely not crush existing
bots in a series of (say) 11-point matches. At most I would expect a
slight advantage. But to me, that is the wrong way to look at the issue.
I would like to understand superbackgames for their own sake, even though
they arise rarely in practice. Furthermore, if we know that bots don't
understand superbackgames, then the closer a position gets to being a
superbackgame, the less we can trust the bot verdict.
Some years ago, Paul Weaver created a "backgame quiz" with some
interesting backgame problems. Most were not what I would call
superbackgames, though a couple were getting close. The only rollouts I
ever saw anyone else do were with standard rollout settings. I have been
running (eXtreme Gammon) rollouts with much stronger settings, and in at
least one case I've gotten some noticeably different results. I think
this is interesting. I also don't fully trust even the strong rollout
settings that I'm currently using, and would welcome a bot that I would be
more willing to trust.
This thread was asking about whether there is any current development of
GNU. If someone poses that question, and nobody even mentions that
"AlphaGammon" would be of interest, then the impression can be created
that nobody cares about that. I want to combat that impression. So just
because I'm not prepared to invest in the supply side of the equation
doesn't mean that it's of no value to exhibit the existence of the demand
side of the equation. In my book, at least.
Tim
- Re: current development, (continued)
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Ingo Macherius, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Øystein Schønning-Johansen, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
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- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development,
Timothy Y. Chow <=
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Timothy Y. Chow, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Philippe Michel, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Øystein Schønning-Johansen, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/06